(23-08-2022, 05:11 AM)venam Wrote: As for the language, I often avoid installing applications that require a specific language I haven't configured on my machine. Sometimes I feel it's ironic to setup a 100+MB environment for a scripts of a few hundreds lines.

Yep. That's my criteria #2 and #3.

I have similar feelings about shared libraries -- many of which aren't truly "shared" but are used only by the program that installed them (I call those "vanity libs"), or never by two or more programs that run simultaneously (which, except for plugins, is the only thing that justifies the overhead of dynamic linking).

So you can add static-linked to my list of criteria, for many reasons beside my distaste for shared libraries. For example, I like to compile and link C programs with --gc-sections, etc. to omit unused code, including any unused code from the libraries (which I've also compiled to support this).